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I loved books I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
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I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.
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